A favorite has no friend! – Thomas Gray
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. – Thomas Gray
A favorite has no friend! – Thomas Gray
Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. – Thomas Gray
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841